The Ninth Doctor...

[fajrdrako]

doctorwho today posts an item from Entertainment Weekly about Doctor Who, basically saying how good it is. With which I can only agree. (It's a list of the 25 SF best SF shows.) But what I liked most was this part:

THE BEST BIT Check out the first season of the newest incarnation, featuring Heroes' Christopher Eccleston as the ninth Doctor (the best ever — apologies to Tom Baker) and the piercing, poignant wit of writer Russell T. Davies.

David Tennant is so popular I sometimes fear that Christopher Eccleston is forgotten; and I love Eccleston so much in the role.

Though I must say that the phrase "Heroes' Christopher Eccleston" made me smile.

Comments

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I love that man to pieces, I truly do, but there are so many reasons on the other side of the scale that would encourage otherwise!

Uh-huh. Times I want to shake him.

I can't hold a character responsible for the writing (so I guess I can contently say I like the character but want to throttle the writers something fierce)

Well, yes, the real fault is theirs... But they have created this strange Doctor whose morality seems to result in hurting those who love him. Yes: there were so many potentially better ways to solve Donna's problem.

Don't even get me started on the way he treats Jack, that Ten!!

My psychic scream of anguish when he dismantled Jack's vortex manipulator not once but twice - ! First time, I thought, "I can't believe he did that." The second time - Aaargh! Jack deserves so much better. (Like, maybe, a hug of thanks?)

I'm a Nine/Jack all the way

Yes, me too. The idea of Ten/Jack offers some interesting problems that are fun to tackle conceptually, but nothing beats Nine/Jack, the pairing I love.

[louiex.livejournal.com]

*facepalms* Oh the vortex manipulator XD The first time 'I can't let you run around with this' why...? Cause Jack would misuse it and to terrible things after being strung up for a year and instead of running off all giddy with you for adventures has chosen to stay and PROTECT THE EARTH but nooooooh Jack can't be trusted *shakes head* Second time, it's more like a pissing contest or something. Like Jack can't also be a time-traveling immortal~

But yes :D I've got the occasional issue with Ten, by far I enjoyed the dynamics that Nine had with Rose (as a guardian, more than an awkward love interest) and with Jack (as the symbol of a warrior turned savior, turning Jack from the conman into a hero of the world). I had a point somewhere in here, but it's run off le sigh, about the transition of Nine!Jack to Ten!Jack being a better evolution of character (let alone DW!Jack to TW!Jack) than Nine to Ten but yeah.. gone! This is why I shouldn't dash off to do something in mid reply!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Oh the vortex manipulator XD The first time 'I can't let you run around with this' why...?

Because the Doctor wants to be the only time traveller left in the universe?

Because, after all Jack has done for him, he wants to prove he's boss?

The only real excuse that satisfies me is the notion that the Doctor knows that if Jack uses his vortex manipulator, terrible things will happen - the Reapers will come, worlds will end, etc. Except... Jack did use it (in "The Stolen Earth") and nothing bad happened. So? Amend my theory: something terrible might happen. Even that theory gets weaker by the minute.

It makes the Doctor look like an ungrateful bully.

I see big differences in personality and emotions between Nine and Ten. Similar outlooks, but manifested differently.